Salish Sea Early Music Festival: Trios by Franz Joseph Haydn

• Jeffrey Cohan, flute
• Lindsey Strand-Polyak, violin
• Martin Bonham, cello

The music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is to be celebrated in "Trios by Franz Joseph Haydn," our fourth program of the 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival featuring flutist Jeffrey Cohan, violinist Lindsey Strand Polyak, and cellist Martin Bonham, in a program of late 18th-century trios by Haydn and his contemporaries and friends performed on period instruments.

As the most celebrated composer in all of Europe for much of his career, Franz Joseph Haydn was Mozart's mentor and friend as well as Beethoven's tutor. The program will include three trios for flute, violin and cello by Haydn, selections from a 1795 arrangement for these instruments of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, and a trio by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven who published music by all three.

Salish Sea Early Music Festival will give eleven performances of this program around the Puget Sound region, Mar. 19-25; the 2024 Festival will consist of nine unique programs total, spanning January through June. Please see www.salishseafestival.org/ for more info.

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About Jeffrey Cohan, flute

Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, who the Boston Globe calls "The Flute Master," has performed in 25 countries throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey, and Portugal. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Competition in New York and recipient of grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th Century. The only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium and in the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston, two of the most prestigious prizes for performers of early music on period instruments, he has premiered new music by many American and European composers. Jeffrey Cohan directs the Cascade Early Music Festival, the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, and the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival. The New York Times has heralded his ability to "play several superstar flutists one might name under the table."

About Lindsey Strand-Polyak, violin

Lindsey Strand-Polyak divides her time between viola and violin and homes in Los Angeles and on Whidbey Island. Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Summer Baroque Workshop, she appears with Baroque Music Montana, Bach Collegium San Diego, Musica Angelica, Sinfonia Spirituosa, Bitterroot Baroque, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar, the Oregon Bach Festival, Byron Schenkman & Friends, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and as principal violist with Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She also serves on the boards of Early Music Seattle as the SBO liaison and Pacific Northwest Viols, and holds a PhD/MM in musicology and violin performance from UCLA.

About Martin Bonham, cello

Baroque cellist Martin Bonham was a member of the Victoria Symphony for many decades, also plays viola da gamba, and was Music Director of the Pachelbel Players, Island Chamber Players, Chamber Music Victoria, and Eine Kleine Summer Music. As a member of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, The Musick Masters, and Les Violes de Sainte-Columbe, he has made numerous radio performances and appearances in Canada and the Northwest US. As a faculty member of the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music, he has led workshops on Baroque string technique.